Wenger - Pressure is too much
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Arsene Wenger believes pressure on Premier League managers to succeed is getting out of hand.
Billy Davies became the sixth manager this season to lose his job on Monday when he was sacked by the top flight's bottom club Derby.
Liverpool's Rafa Benitez, Middlesbrough's Gareth Southgate and Newcastle's Sam Allardyce are also coming under pressure from club owners to achieve success.
And the Arsenal boss, who has enjoyed 11 years with the Gunners, says the price of failure is making top flight management tougher than ever before.
Wenger told The Sun: "The fire is always ready but now it looks as though you are burned on the village green quicker than ever before.
Internal differences
"Rafa Benitez has done remarkably well at Liverpool and what is happening there is not down to sport or to results. It is down to internal differences.
"I am fortunate I have had my freedom and the support of my board to work as I want ever since I arrived in England. My directors understand you do not get success without that backing.
"But you need experience to realise that and I am not sure that everyone who has just bought their way into the game can appreciate that."
Wenger also jumped to the defence of former Derby boss Davies, who was dismissed by the Rams just six months after leading them to promotion from the Championship.
Over-achieving
"What is strange is that a manager can pay the price for over-achieving," Wenger added.
"It cannot be right that a guy has put the club in a position where they never dreamed of being and, 14 games later, he is sacked.
"We are always in a fragile position because you are quickly exposed when you don't have good results.
"But if you analyse the modern game, it seems to be more and more politics now." -
it is only fair that those paid the top dollars deliver the goods.
cant say the same for managers like davies of derby. -
i read tis at the newpaper
